The Croatian users of roaming mobile services abroad used the Internet 20 times more ⋆

The Croatian users of roaming mobile services abroad used the Internet 20 times more

Croatian roaming mobile network users in the EU used the internet 20 times more and talked about 5 times longer in the first quarter than in the year before when the EU’s “Roaming Like At Home” (RLAH) was not yet in effect.

In the Republic of Croatia, in the first quarter of 2018, traditionally known as ski vacation month, there was a significant increase in the usage of mobile services roaming.

The lowest growth was achieved by the SMS service with 32 percent more messages sent, according to the Croatian Agency for Postal and Electronic Communications (Hakom).

The number of broadband internet access connections in the fixed network reached almost 1.1 million and grew slightly below 4% on an annual basis. The number of copper-plated plugs keeps falling, replacing the optical fibres, high-speed cable networks or other access technologies. Fixed-voice services have traditionally been on the decrease.

At the annual level, in the Croatian operators’ mobile networks, there has been a drop in telephone revenues and a slight drop in the number of users but the revenues increase from the Internet access services as well as the number of users accessing the internet is expectedly growing. The duration of the call with a slight increase is similar to the year 2017, the number of SMS text and MMS messages dropped by over 12 i.e. 7%.

The messages sent to various Internet applications have success replaced the prior ones. Internet traffic via mobile networks has been in growth for a long time, and it is about 50% higher each year.

Users of quad-play packages (mobile telephony, fixed telephony, TV and internet access) increased by 9 percent year-on-year.

The annual growth of M2M services was 30 percent in the same period. croatian roaming